I took my younger brother with me who is, by nature, a carbivore/carnivore hybrid. Nary a vegetable dares to bother gracing his plate for risk of being ignored or fed to the dogs under the table. In the film, pictures of bread, meat, sugar, and salt flash across the screen to be harshly slashed through with red lines. At this point, he audibly gasped. The closest he comes to a raw diet, is raw cookie dough. I figured if anyone could offer me a non-dietetics opinion, he would be best.
The film was interesting, with a heaping serving of downright weird. It includes interviews with other members of the raw food boot camp, about 75 percent of who were overly enthusiastic about everything. The ‘zing’ they describe when asked about the wheatgrass enemas made the audience visibly uneasy…and this happened often during the screening. Man, do they love talking about enemas.
At the end of the 30 days the results of her latest round of blood work were revealed. Lower levels of triglycerides, glucose, cholesterol and a decrease in weight to a healthy BMI were all positives. But I’m not a believer. She cut out all processed foods and many of the fats from her diet to almost solely consume fruits and vegetables. Why are these results surprising at all? I can’t attribute the lab values to uncooked foods, but more so to the foods themselves. And I certainly can’t agree with this diet where she ended up anemic after her 30 days. My brother walked away a little weird-ed out at the extremes she and other raw foodies went to in order to maintain this diet or rather, lifestyle. But curiosity must have done something. The former vegetable avoider is planning 1 week raw as soon as final exams are through.
Curious?
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